Squirrel Flower Details New Album Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going

Ella Williams has set an August 21 release date for her next Squirrel Flower album, Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going, via Polyvinyl. The eleven-track record follows 2023’s Tomorrow’s Fire and pulls in a wider circle of collaborators: Dimitri Giannopoulos (Horse Jumper of Love), Dave Hartley (the War on Drugs), Sofia Jensen (Free Range), Clay Frankel (Twin Peaks), and others.

The lead single, “Reelin,” arrives with a video and a characteristically specific backstory. Williams has said the lyrics began as an art piece made on an overdue Kansas Turnpike toll bill. “This song is my ode to the push and pull of domesticity and unraveling,” she explained. “Leaving and getting reeled back in, over and over.” That tension between movement and stasis has long been a current in her writing, and here it surfaces with a lived-in directness.

The tour behind the album is extensive. Squirrel Flower will open select dates for the Beths in June, Spoon and the Beths later that month, and Ethel Cain in early August, including a sold-out Chicago show at Metro. A headlining run follows in September and October across North America, with stops in Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle, and more, before wrapping at Chicago’s Thalia Hall in late November.